Quotes About Human nature

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

There are two souls in a body of a human these souls are GOD & DEVIL.if u r going to do any work it is good or ither it is bad always listen ur GOD's soul.

Viver no engano ou ser enganado é fácil, e mais ainda, é a nossa condição natural: ninguém está livre disso e ninguém é imbecil por causa disso, não nos deveríamos opor muito nem nos deveria doer tanto. No entanto parece-nos intolerável quando finalmente sabemos.

Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.

Le fabricateur souverain nous créa besaciers tous de même manière, tant ceux du temps passé que du temps d'aujourd'hui : Il fit pour nos défauts la poche de derrière, Et celle de devant pour les défauts d'autrui.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.

When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.

His view of human nature is more jaundiced (I think that is the word) than mine.

Il y a toujours chez les hommes de guerre quelque chose de direct qu'ils tiennent peut-être de leur habitude de donner la mort. Il faut, pour frapper quelqu'un, même au combat, se libérer d'un poids de civilisation qui enferme la plupart d'entre nous dans la fausseté et une douceur forcée.

Il créait dans leur couple une zone d'ombre d'où pourrait sortir le meilleur comme le pire.

There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

There is a certain age at which human nature is desirous of procreation—procreation which must be in beauty and not in deformity; and this procreation is the union of man and woman, and is a divine thing.29

Who we think we are can be stripped away forever," I make a poof gesture, "just like that. Right now, well fed, unthreatened, we have the luxury of pretending the Donners and the Nazis and the gang-bangers are someone else, but they're not. They're us; a veil's breadth away. There are no good guys and bad guys. People are people, all the same; only the circumstances change.

You don't have to trust people not to betray you or break your heart or steal your purse; you just trust them to be who they are. Once you understand fear, get a little distance from it and see what it really is and how it operates in the world, then you can understand everything about people. In an eyes-closed being, everything flows from fear; good and bad, courage and cowardice, love and hate, all flow from the same well.

It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all.

Am I a person or a weapon?" Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person." "You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.

Back there, I had always felt as if my work amounted to a futile attempt to save us from who we are.